Today’s Escapism

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Unfortunately, things have gotten ahead of me. My HAM radio fiddling is working but slow. (Thanks for the advice everyone!) I’m stalled waiting on an antenna from Amazon. (Virtually none of what I needed was available locally. The day Amazon goes woke is the day I break free of the material world; look for me fishing next to a van down by the river.) That’s the thing with HAM radios, they’re specifically NOT plug and play.

That and other things mean I’ve fallen behind in a planned post. I decided to do a blog clipshow. I had some links I’ve wanted to post but never got around to it. There’s no rhyme nor reason to my selections, they just suit my fancy. Today’s the day to be random.

First we begin with my only reaction to the bridge in Crimea:

Here’s a version with commentary by period appropriate satirical morons:

Since we’re going through another “nuclear crisis” (which I think is really a “bad leadership crisis”) I was reminded of the Cold War. I decided to add one of my favorite songs from the darker time to which elites seem to want regression. I remember when East Germany was East Germany and when the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union. That was bad shit that anybody sane would prefer to avoid.

It ended about as well as ever could be hoped but then fruit loops among us decided to play the whole thing on repeat locally. Why!?! “That sucked when it happened to those people over there, lets shove it up our own ass right here in River City!” The mind boggles.

Doubt me? Remember it’s only a year since Americans were informed they would be legally unemployable without an injection. Imagine creating an underclass by law and on purpose. That’s the kind of shit you get when managers have more power than merit. They seek to impose spreadsheets on actual humans and start breaking eggs to make omelets. It only paused when people like me (and presumably you) said “fuck that”. It wasn’t cattle cars yet; but the operative word was yet. It never would have ended if they had the power to keep it going. It was a damn close thing that ‘aint over yet!

It’s also weird that people who know the cold war that ended somehow don’t know the cold war ended. I’m getting pretty frustrated with people who haven’t figured out that life has changed. Even if Putin is a genuine Bond villain the Russian Federation is not the USSR. Destabilizing the whole world to expand NATO with which to hold back a Warsaw Pact that no longer exists? Who came up with that and did they ever play Risk? I remember when nobody knew who ran the Kremlin; now I live in a world where nobody knows who’s calling the shots in DC.

For those that pine for the drab days of bleak iron curtain misery, I present Falco:

If you don’t speak German (I don’t) here’s a translation. I’ll post a bit of it:

“Don’t turn around, look, look,
the Commissioner is out and about!
He’ll keep his eye on you
and you know why.
Your zest for life will kill you.”

That’s a thing to ponder… people for whom someone else’s zest for life is a threat.

I’m glad that time is over. I don’t want anything to do with anything going on in either Ukraine or Russia. I’m enemies with nobody out there. I shoulder responsibility for neither.

For no particular reason, here’s a photo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand:

Those who do not know history are doomed to fuck things up.

If you’ve scrolled this far you’ve got Falco stuck in your head and are sick of my overly serious pontification. Touché! Here comes something utterly irrelevant. It’s the most deadly earworm of all:

That shit is hardwired! I joke about squirrels and Abba but Falco had a mind like a vise. He could probably run us like robots had he wanted. Also, you’ll be hearing the song for hours… you’re welcome.

One last link: Click to see the whole two hours of Batman remastered as a silent movie. I watched a few minutes and found it strangely beautiful. I like that such a thing exists. I’ll be watching the whole thing over the weekend. YMMV.